James L. Brooks Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.”

“I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones make a funny sound. But I'm laughing.”

“I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable.”

“That's the great thing about a series: you're driving to work, and you have an idea for a story for your characters, and you can go into work, and it's gonna be a television show. I mean that's what's great about the job.”

“What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.”

“I have a lot of nightmares.”

“Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.”

“Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.”

“Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.”

“I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me.”